Re: Comment on obliterate functional specification

Magnus Torfason wrote:
> However, even in the disk-space story, data *is* destroyed
> (imagine a file that was deleted because it was not useful at the
> time, and "hey, it's all in subversion, so I can just keep my
> directory clean without having to worry"). Someone naively running
> "svn archive" and then wanting to restore an old file might be in
> for a nasty surprise.
>

I'd expect "svn archive" to do exactly that -- split old stuff out of
the repo, but archive it in a way that keeps it marginally accessible,
so that ancient archived data can be reconstructed.

-- Brane

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Received on 2009-03-06 20:04:32 CET